Legging.



M. ROSENWASSER.

LBGGING.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.22,1910.

Patented Mar. 28, 1911.

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W/ TNESSES MORRIS ROSENWASSER, OF NEW YQRK, N. Y. l

LEGGING.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application led December 22,v 1910, Serial No. 598,681.

Patented Mar. 28, 1911.

To all whom it 'may concern: ,y

Be it known that I, MORRIS RosnNwAssnR,

residing at New York', in the county and State of New York,

new anduseful Improvements in Leggings,

of which the following 1s a specification.

and the advantages inherent, obvious and in part specifically referred to .5,-and knotted on 1t may be positively secured in any preferred This lnvention relatesl to improvements in leggings, and one of the objects thereof 1s to produce a legging of improved construction as to the fastening devices employed, where' by the application of the'same to the leg is facilitated, a neater fit and appearance made possible, and at the same time ultimate fastening made at a'single point.v

Another object is to provide in a legging a single fastening member extending from end to end of the legging and acting to keep the edges of the legging in overlapped rela- ,f tion without buckling or bulging, but which isnevertheless for the most part invisible.

Other objects and aims ofthe invention,

will be in part in the course of the followin description.

The invention consists o? the elements, combinations and arrangements of parts, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and the scope of protection contemplated will be indicated in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, whichare to be taken'as a part of this specification, and in which I have illustrated merely preferred forms of embodiment of the invention: Figure 1 is a'n elevation of a legging embodying my invention showing the flaps in closed`relation; and'Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1.1

Referring to the numerals on the drawing, a legging of any preferred material is indicated at 1, vadapted to be placed about the leg, and having preferably overlapping portions-3 and 1, whose edges are stitfened as by means of metal strips indicated at 5,'suitably covered and held in position by the material of the fiaps.

Asshown in Fig. 1, a lace or the like 6, is secured to the inner Hap adjacent its lower end. The lace may be passed from the outside of the ap through an eye 7, extending through the flaps and the stiffened member the inside of the ap; or

manner. Another eye8 is provided in the outer flap adjacent the lower end thereof,

which also "passes lthrough the flap and its stiiening member,

through which the lace have invented certain outer flap and through the stiftening is led to the inside of said flap. From eye 8 the lace is passed upwardly on the inside of the outer flap to an eye 9, through whichit emerges to the outside of the outer iap. Thence the lace engages van upstanding hook or eye 10 upon the'outside of the inner Hap.

An eye 1l is located further along the length of the outer flap, and'throu'gh this eye 11 thelace now passes to the inside of the outer flap, emerging through an eye-12 adjacent the upper end of the-outer iap to the outside thereof, whence it maybe passed through an eye 13, adjacent theupper end of the inner flap, and secured in any preferred manner.

The various eyes extend through the stiffening members 5; and the fastening hook or'eye l0 extends through the member 5 and the inner flap. e

It will .be evident that 'with the arrangement described, a neat lit of the legging is assured, the lower ends always held in substantially closed relation ready for the insertion of the foot. The engagement of the lace with the eye 10 prevents any buckling or bulging of the flaps intermediate their ends when the lace is taut and secured, the flaps are drawn together uniformly by a pull upon the free end of the lace, and are securely held against edgewise movement when the at top and bottom; and the lace is-toa eat extent vconcealed between'the edges of the flan. y

It is believed that the use of the legging'is vsulliciently `clear from the detailed -description of parts set out above, and further explanation thereof is accordingly omitted.

`It will be understood that materials, sizes, and relativities of parts are unimportant, except as called for in the claim.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure. by Letters Patent is: f

A legging having overlapping flaps, metallic stiifening members suitably covered and secured at the edges of-said flaps, the inner lap having eyes extending through the stiff-v ening member at top and bottom respectively, an upg-,tanding hook or eye intermediate said other eyes, and extending through the'st-iifening member of the inner flaps, a pair ofeyes atl the top and bottom respectively of the outer member thereof, a

of the iiaps may bel lace is secured flap and extending passes across the edge of the sov lace secured inthe bottom eye of said inner flap and extending from the outside of saidinuer Hap through the eye in the bottoni of the outer flap and beneath the Same, a pair `of eyes midway of Athe length of the outer `iap extending through the stitiening ineinber thereof and relatively close together, the lace passing' beneath the outer flap through one ot said intermediate pair ot eyes across 1o the edge of the flap to engage the upstandiu;-

hook or eye ofthe inner 'flap` then back through the other of Said intermediate pair of eyes of the outside flap, beneath the saine and then extending beneath the saine to an e'ye at the top thereof, through which it 15 passes to the outside of the outer lian, and then passes through the upper eye in the inner flap and beneath the same, substantially as described.

n testimony whereof I afix my signature 20 Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissonerof Yatents Washington, '.D. C. 

